The latest official borrowing statistics were released earlier today, and – thanks to a few revisions, detailed by Paul Waugh here – they’re slightly lower than you might expect. Not that the numbers aren’t still massive. Public sector net borrowing between April and October stood at £37 billion – bringing the total over the economic cycle up to £640.9
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